The World Bank pioneered global HIV and AIDS financing early in the emergency and remains committed to achieving Millennium Development Goal 6, to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS, through prevention, care, treatment, and mitigation services for those affected by HIV and AIDS.
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The objectives of the project is to:
design and disseminate an appropriate monitoring and
evaluation tool for the wellness centre concept, in
partnership with North... Show More + Star Alliance (NSA) and Abidjan-Lagos
Corridor (ALCO); building on a partnership with ALCO,
improve Federation of East and Southern African Road
Transport Associations (FESARTA's) capacity to support
HIV/AIDS programmes within its National Road Transport
Associations (NRTAs); improved commitment by the road
transport industry (through the NRTAs) and stakeholders,
towards the establishment and future sustainability of the
wellness centres; and scale up commitment by corporate
companies to support wellness centres in a large scale in
East and Southern Africa. In the late 1990s, it was apparent
from statistics on HIV/AIDS prevalence in the cities and
towns along the road transport corridors from East Africa to
Southern Africa, that the pandemic was being spread by the
road transport industry along these corridors. There were
many projects and programmes aimed at fighting the HIV/AIDS
pandemic in the region at that time, but few were directed
at the road transport industry. Show Less -

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) pandemic
burdens Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and continues to constrain
its social and... Show More + economic advancement. Joint United Nations
Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has estimated that in southern
Africa alone, 930,000 adults and children died of AIDS in
2005. This represents about one-third of AIDS deaths
recorded globally that year. In addition, about 12 million
children below the age of 17 in SSA are estimated to have
lost one or both parents to AIDS. Africa Technical Transport
Sector Unit (AFTTR) has made progress in mainstreaming
HIV/AIDS in its portfolio. However, there is still more work
ahead in ensuring that all projects are mainstreamed as
needed. In this context, the transport sector board needs to
continue supporting such future mainstreaming efforts by
establishing a sector board strategy for HIV/AIDS activities
on Bank-financed transport projects. The diverse nature of
transportation activities implies that mainstreaming is both
challenging and urgent. In 2000, the Africa transport team
gave high priority to its contribution to the campaign
against the HIV/AIDS pandemic and pledged to mainstream
HIV/AIDS actions in the Bank's lending operations and
at country level in the transport sector. The transport
sector contributed significantly through integrating simple
activities into its operations (such as HIV/AIDS contract
clauses into bidding documents for road construction site
workers). Similarly, the Bank financed a first-round
workshop to prepare HIV/AIDS prevention policy in the
workplace for Ministry employees. Its main objective is to
develop and implement highly focused prevention
interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence and slow down
the spread of the disease in the transport sector. This
document is subdivided in four sections. The first section
gives background information on the transport sector and
HIV/AIDS. The second section describes the Bank's
transport sector activities, with particular focus on the
Africa region and its achievements regarding HIV/AIDS. The
third section presents the process and the results of the
assessment of the Africa transport sector portfolio for
HIV/AIDS mainstreaming. The fourth section enumerates the
lessons learned as well as the recommendations made to the
World Bank's Transport Sector Board and to stakeholders
in the client countries. Show Less -

This paper analyzes the determinants of
firms' decision to provide HIV/AIDS prevention
activities. Using data from 860 firms and 4,955 workers in
Uganda, Tanzania, and... Show More + Kenya, it shows that larger firms, and
firms with higher skilled workers tend to invest more in
AIDS prevention. Firms where more than 50 percent of workers
are unionized are also more likely to do more prevention
activity. Finally, these characteristics are also
significant in determining whether or not a firm carries out
pre-employment health checks of its workers. The results
shed light on the likelihood of private sector intervention
and the gaps that will require public sector assistance. Show Less -